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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I say this mainly as a joke pointing to the severe inequities that exist in finding work. I read this op ed thinking, man, it must be good being God's favorite.

This was not a scientific survey, and the respondents were not randomly selected. I assembled a list of recent hires based on social media and corporate announcements and reached out to them directly via email, LinkedIn or X.

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Looking at the writing my brain come up with:

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'd get these rooster familiar with 11 herbs & spices but PETA would be on my ass

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Local political bookclub group voted on some real heat for next month

Photo of Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

Photo of Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) back cover

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Miami things volume ∞: a random ass roaming peacock in the yard.

Image of a random ass peacock posted up in my yard like they own the place

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I ain't never heard of 1 of my peoples staying up late playing any game since I've known him until today & it was for Ace Combat 8

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Truly incredible journalism you will not covered by mainstream media that humanizes the victims|community of the bombing at the Minab school & holds the historical imperialist machinations of the US under detailed scrutiny.

"Trump is not the first U.S. president to attack the court. In 2002, President George W. Bush signed into law a bipartisan bill, subsequently known in the human rights community as the “Hague Invasion Act,” permitting the use of military force to free any U.S. or allied personnel charged with war crimes by the court."

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't play Deadlock but my peoples who do said there's a new character Solomon who is me in a few decades. & I agree!

The character Solomon from Deadlock seen playing chess

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth page 133:

"The more the people understand, the more vigilant they become he more they realize in fact that everything depends On them and that their salvation lies in their solidarity, in recognizing their interests and identifying their enemies. The people understand that wealth is not the fruit of labor but the spoils from an orga- nized protection racket. 'The rich no longer seem respectable men but flesh-eating beasts, iackals and ravens who wallow ir the blood of the people." Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth page 133

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Proudly hop, skip, & jumping past my estimated word count

Photo of Ranamon from Digimon wearing glasses accompanied with stars as she appears to answer a question

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You know what? Fair. Nobody wanna date someone who reads whack ass books.

Your place or mine? Yours. I won’t go full Room Raiders, but I need to make sure you own good books.

How do you show affection? Texting shitposts I think would make you laugh.

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Saw someone call Shizuka in Onimshua gauntlet shawty, & that's what I'm filing her under.

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

1 of my local papers really has no longer has beat reporters dedicated to the city of Miami & city of Miami Beach.

The Miami Herald, which had 20 layoffs and eliminated 10 vacant positions, lost its city of Miami and city of Miami Beach beats, said deputy investigations editor Carol Marbin Miller.

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Targeting of activist and so-called pre-crime policing, good old American traditions via shiny new oppressive technology

This kind of pre-crime policing, encouraged without due process, is referenced as an explicit goal by Anthropic’s security program manager in the podcast reviewed by the Prospect. “The goal would be transforming operations from reactive information to gathering proactive and predictive and preventative threat engagement and management,” he said, adding, “That’s the kind of operational maturity that makes sense for protecting high-value targets in any industry.”

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The things I could write about my metropolitan area that have run counter to this statement could fill books.

“Miami-Dade County has spent decades building a reputation as a world-class destination for tourism, business, investment, and opportunity,” stated Bermudez. “We should be promoting the Miami-Dade we have worked so hard to build, not a fictional version of our community defined by crime and violence.”

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Not gonna hold you. I have a big cackle everytime there's a "AI isn't working right now" story. Oh no, god forbid people...think & work still????

Yuji and Yuta from the anime Jujutsu Kaisen thinking together

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

All I seen in the discord seen the episode dropped.

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Buddy, you know something has been severely under reported when you keep running into your own report from years back on the subject.

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Excellent reporting here about the opioid settlement funds being used for the police state vs the affected communities

In sum, Mother Jones found that 19 agencies in ten different states spent more than $920,000 in opioid funds on Flock and other ALPRs, a likely undercount given the inconsistency with which opioid settlement expenditures are tracked and disclosed across states and local jurisdictions.

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Might show y'all some really serious principled journalism, allegedly...maybe

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Watched real rap last night with the community

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm allegedly cooking something...

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Great essay about "Woke 1.0". Very well said

This was the latest in a long cycle of white backlash that has been constant since at least the civil rights era. And since we have allowed the right to dominate the structure of discourse for so long—whether in defining what “woke” is, or what extremism is, or what free speech is—we’re now in a stage where the supposedly sensible thing is to disavow one of the biggest protest movements in modern history because those that saw police violence against Black people as routine are now framing that movement as a time of lunacy.

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Everyone provided some great insight in the 10th year anniversary of Bullet Points Monthly. But right here: this is putting a scorching pen to paper

What's advertised to the poor are games that are jobs and casinos together. You can play Fortnite on your phone. And Roblox. And Genshin Impact. These are all almost endless games with quotas, tasks, "something for everyone," and endless slots to throw in endless coins. The irony is that the past of videogames, and the margins scattered across itch.io and self-hosted websites, is more accessible than ever. But those things require you to be in the know and they won't be advertised to you on TikTok.

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I know I joke, but freelance writing really is like hitting the lotto now

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I can only assume the former writer was operating on some rightful, "hey y'all come look at this bullshit over here" Because buddy, I'd take this response real personal & might pray on a person's downfall

The Saber CEO personally attacked the former Saber developer as being replaced by “someone more talented,” but didn’t deny that generative AI is involved in “certain parts of the game,” which will eventually be disclosed on Rideshare’s Steam page.

“Stella who?” Karch’s statement to TWIVG began. “I had to ask Claude because I have never spoken to her or seen her. We have already said we are using AI for certain parts of the game and will update the Steam page once we have finalized the feature set.”

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

For Black August, the local political education book club voted on reading Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth.

Photo of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Great article from The Cut people admitting their struggling is a taboo on social media. We are all conditioned in the US to internalize our livelihood are our fault. Never mind the fact our lives are the result of oppressive systems across race, class, etc that moves like a well oiled machine

The Cut - "For all the diversity of experience I encountered, I found a broad consensus on the most basic rule of engagement: You can’t admit to struggle — at least not while you’re struggling. Doing so represents a failure so profound it’s almost existential"

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Great insight from @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social on the journalistic struggles with conducting anime interviews.

At my most sardonic, I find humor in the challenge of asking pertinent and provocative questions, given that the above process only yields questions like whether my interviewees liked the colors, shapes, and sounds they saw in a show. At my most exasperated, I ask myself what we are even doing here, grumble about how the integrity of my work is being compromised, and wonder whether I should just slide my keyboard to my interviewees so they can write it up themselves, since I’m a middleman whose journalistic purpose feels ground to dust.

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Read Ken's report & then I read the State Department's 100 page pdf report on Cuba. I gotta say this is an incredible piece of mask off US imperialist propaganda. But anyway, a good historical analysis on this subject is Dr CBS' book Black Scare / Red Scare.

Photo of Dr. CBS' Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States.

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My cousin asked me how the full-time job hunt was going 🤷🏾‍♂️:

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This Stanford report isn't shocking in the least. Would explain why multiple professional done resumes might as well be party confetti in this job market.

A new study surveyed the AI company Pymetrics and found that 15% of Asian applicants and 26% of Black applicants applied to jobs where the artificial intelligence tool appeared to be biased against their racial group.

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Just seen the young brother I be chopping up sports with working the gym service desk. After I said what's up, my spider sense told me to ask him if he bet on that UFC fight & he got comically quiet. "This why they be targeting us man 😭"

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

First thing my friend at the gym said today was FIFA rigged.

Zendaya with glasses looks onward with a smile on her face

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If I write anything in the near future that's far better than what I wrote in the past, it's because of political education book clubs in Miami.

Photo of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Jaylen Brown a 76er because of business moves. The Lakers got pretty hwhite. And Paul George on the Celtics. Sure NBA

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

*In the future around a campfire talking to my future kids & their little friends.* Me: We were able to go to a store and buy games in a box. The game on a disc and not a code. We could then insert discs into consoles to play them. All the children: Woah.

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